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In August 2011 my friend and I went to Wizard World Chicago. While there we met a couple of guys with Proton Packs taking photos for charity.
After wearing their packs for a photo it got us thinking. "We're pretty handy, I wonder if we could make a couple of these before Halloween?"
As it turns out making a Proton Pack is pretty darn expensive. As I imagine is the case with many movie props the proton pack seems to be built with random odds and ends from their prop shop. And since it's mostly unusual parts they're pretty hard to find.
Because I didn't want to spend weeks scouring eBay for authentic parts I decided to avoid the costs by 3D modeling all of the hard to find bits and printing them out.
So included in this thing are all the parts that I 3D printed when building my proton pack. I won't go so far as to call them 100% screen accurate but they're pretty darn close.
MANY more photos and instructions are available on Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thenewhobbyist/sets/72157633624641313
Parts for a matching Particle Wand are available here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:95727

I am in the process of putting mine together now, I used the vacuum formed shell but I will need to re-scale the bumper parts as they ended up too big and are about 30mm too wide on each side. So just fyi to anyone using the vacuum formed shell.

This is great, I had been trying to find someone who would let me take measurements of their pack but have been unable to do so. I modeled the ghost trap and I think it came out pretty decent.
I have modeled the Iona shoe polisher (i haven't upload it yet, its not quite finished) which was used to make the PKE meter prop. Would you care to collaborate on that?

WOW! that's pretty darn accurate!
I used to work Wizard World Chicago every year; haven't been there in a while. I may just go this year (My wife's been bugging me to take her, lol)
If I do, maybe I'll run into you!

This is quite literally the best thing on the internet this morning.
Well done. I built a Proton pack a while ago for Halloween out of construction foam, and plastic bits. Turned out fine, but this would have been so much better.